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My Boys | Legendary Collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi friends,

It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a  new layout for the stitching theme we are featuring here on the CVS blog this week using the awesome new Legendary collection. The photo I am documenting is a recent one of myself and my boys getting out for some exercise and fresh air during Covid-19 isolation!

I have wanted to try doing an 8.5′ x 11′ sized layout for some time now, I have created a few in my time but not many that I have shared before. I loved the smaller space to work with! I decided to incorporate machine stitching right around the entire perimeter of the blue star background  paper, bending up the edges to create some texture.

I decided to cut out an arrow design cut file (free from Paper Issues) from white cardstock and backed all the arrows with different patterned papers. I love how it looks with all the colours. I added craft foam underneath to give it dimension and placed it to the centre of the page.

Once the cut file was adhered, I placed my photo towards the top right corner, adding craft foam and 2 of the stickers from the accessory sticker sheet underneath the photo. My title is made up of the cardstock titles, I added craft foam underneath the title also and placed that opposite the photo at the top.

Some of the embellishments I included on my page are all from the Legendary collection, including the clear stickers, die-cuts, enamel dots, a flair button and some of the small phrase and word stickers from the accessory sheet. Lastly I added the date stamp to the ‘Best Ever’ sticker at the bottom.

The Legendary collection is perfect for documenting both the boys and girls in your life! Make sure you get your hands on some!

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by the Cocoa Vanilla blog during these uncertain and crazy times. I hope you all stay safe and healthy.

Tarrah x

Explore | Legendary Collection | Danni Visser

Hi there scrappers!  Danni here sharing a large photo layout using Legendary.  I was itching to get some outdoor photos scrapped with this collection, so I decided to use this landscape photo of Tasmania’s Dove Lake at Cradle Mountain. It’s such a stunning image and I have been waiting for the right collection to scrap it – the mountain images in Legendary made it absolutely perfect!

My layout base is a 12×12 pale blue cardstock background.  I went through all the patterned papers in this collection and cut a bunch of different size triangles from contrasting colours and patterns.  A little tip for cutting even triangles – cut squares or rectangles, fold in half and pinch at the centre to mark it, then use a paper trimmer to cut straight lines from the two bottom corners to the centre point.

To create texture and interest, I added machine stitching to edges of some triangles.  On others I used either white gel pen or black pen to add sketchy lines or faux stitching, while a few I left blank.  I then arranged all the triangles in a horizontal line across the page, making sure to overlap them.  My intention was to create the illusion of a mountain range behind my photo.  Because you can see the mountains reflected in the water, I added some triangles at the bottom pointing down as well. To create a 3D effect, I popped the peaks of mountains on foam squares.

I matted the photo with a single simple layer using Outdoors Type paper. I happened to find the perfect mountains die cut from the die cut ephemera, which I layered behind the Explore cut apart from Epic Tales paper as my title to left of my photo.  Three tiny word stickers from the accessory stickers were perfect accents to the right and top of the photo. The mountain flair button to the right of my photo perfectly echoes the mountain die cut on the opposite side.

For the sky, I added the moon from the die cut ephemera and fussy-cut a bunch of stars from All Star paper.  Next I scattered some stars from the clear stickers throughout the sky and a couple on top of my photo.  I particularly love clear stickers for layering on photos!  To fill in any gaps in the sky, I sprinkled in some enamel dots.

As a finishing touch I splattered some white, gold and black inks on the background, mountains and a little on the edge of the photo. I really hope you enjoyed joining me today and that you are inspired to scrap some of your outdoors photos with this amazing collection!  There is a process video below too.

Danni x

Remember | Love always Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello everyone. It’s Anna here with my newest page. The theme for this week is SPRING or EASTER and I couldn’t be more happy about it. I love making spring pages with fresh colors and flowers. Because of the situation around the world I wasn’t able to snap fresh pictures yet but I have plenty of them from previous years. I decided to reach for photos we took during our trip to Netherlands few years ago. We visited fantastic Keukenhof Garden, known for splendid tulips. It’s only open for few weeks of spring. I toom so many pretty photos that it was hard to choose only few. I decided to use 5 and put them in a row. I was looking for matching line and papers from “Love always” drawn my attention.

I like revisiting older lines. I can look at them with fresh eye and use up the leftovers. To avoid boredome and change things a little bit I didn’t use straight lines. I tilted a second layer paper a little bit and use this angle as a guideline for further layers.

My pictures are colorful and I wanted them to remain the main star of the project. I decided to keep things simple and I added only a few embellishments around the photos, mostly flowers from ephemera pack. I also found few woodies from various lines and added them here and there.

My title is a combination of cardstock sticker, and two different alpha stickers. Mixing different fonts makes things more interesting. You can mix stickers with cut outs from digital die cutting machine. There are plenty of possibilities.

Do you like going back to the older lines or, in a very moment you get new ones, you just forget about them? That is all for today. I hope I inspired you to do some digging in the older stuff. Especially now, when we finally have time to use up everything we were hoarding for years :) Thank you for stopping by and see you in two weeks <3 XO Anna

Rad Brother | Legendary Collection | Melissa Vining

Hello and Happy Easter Monday. Its Melissa here!  I hope you had a lovely Easter with your loved ones wherever you are in the world.  I’m so excited to be working with the amazing Legendary collection, and there was a lot of excitement (from my kids and I) when the courier came to our door!

I decided to challenge myself to scrap an Easter photo with this rad collection, with an extra twist of using a floral cut file ,and to use it to document my son Sam. The cut file is from Confessions of a Paper Addict.

The first thing I did was to pull all of the papers that I thought would work for this cut file, bearing in mind that it has a lot of florals.  Often I find that the B-sides are best for backing smaller details on cut files.  Cut part sheets are also great for finding extra patterns and colours.

The title word said “Brothers”, but as I only have one son I altered it by cutting off the “s” to make it work for this photo of Sam.  The story behind this photo is that although he was a big 12 year old last Easter, he still joined in the Easter hunt and even posed for this photo for the sake of his youngest sisters. If you have kids that are nearly teenagers you’ll know what I mean!!

I love using a patterned paper for a background, and this gorgeous small repeating triangle was perfect.  I added some small blue and yellow splatters for some subtle detail.  I really wanted the feature of may layout to be the photo and the cut file, so I kept embellishment to a minimum.  I added some of the clear stickers to help draw the eye in, and my final touch was to use blue drops on the two flowers that were too small to back with patterned paper.

I hope you enjoyed my Easter layout.  Thanks for looking, and I’ll be back later this month.

Take care

Melissa

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet Moments | More Than Words Collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi friends,

It’s Tarrah back with you and today I am sharing a layout for Throwback Thursday. I decided to go back and pull out the gorgeous More Than Words collection for my Throwback Thursday project. I decided to cut a scallop design cut file that is from Cut To You first and backed some of the open spaces with some of the gorgeous papers from the collection.

I chose the Noteworthy paper as my background paper and arranged all the scallop pieces on the background how I liked them. I chose to document a lovely photo of my Mum and my son together at my Nan’s 90th birthday at the end of last year. I added one of the cardstock frames behind my photo and popped it up with foam tape to raise it up off the page. I placed some embellishments around the photo, including the flair button, a few die-cut phrases, a chipboard heart and some enamel dots and shapes.

My title is made up of the chipboard ‘Moments’ word from the chipboard elements pack and also the word ‘Sweet’ from the black chipboard titles pack. I placed both of these on the left of my photo, I like how they look overlapping the scalloped papers underneath. I added some of the floral cluster die-cuts around the page also, I like how they add some more colour and another element to the page.

The most time consuming part of the layout was backing all the scallop pieces and getting them arranged. Once that was all done and I had them glued down, the rest of the layout came together quite quickly. I find backing cut files very therapeutic, a bit like fussy cutting….however I know its not everyone’s cup of tea lol! A few of the last bits I added were the small phrase stickers from the Accessory Sticker sheet.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed my Throwback Thursday project and that you are inspired in some way to create with your More Than Words goodies.

Happy creating and stay well everyone!

Tarrah x

Hey Legends | Legendary collection | Sue Plumb

Hi everyone! It’s Sue Plumb here to share my latest design team project with you featuring the awesome new ‘Legendary’ collection. For this layout I decided to document a photo of my three kids doing what they do best – being weirdos! (I wouldn’t have them any other way.) I also decided to work with a very limited colour palette – focusing on the black / blue / grey tones from the collection, as I thought it would work well with my black and white photo.

I began by creating a mixed media background on a sheet of white cardstock, using two blue inks to add some subtle colour to my page. I also added some stamping using black ink and a stamp with tiny stars. Once the background was completely dry I then moved on to adding some papery layers.

I first cut a piece of the star print pattern from the Offbeat paper into a vertical banner shape to act as the anchor point for my layers. Next, I created a mat for my photo using a piece of the Explorer paper and placed it on top of the banner with my photo stuck on top. I then added a couple of horizontal strips that I cut from the Explorer and Total Legend papers and tucked them in behind.

Above my photo I added some extra pieces of paper tucked in behind the top of the banner which were also cut from the Total Legend paper. I also added the circular piece that I fussy cut from the centre of the mandala in the middle of the Explorer paper.

I also added two words from the Die Cut Titles pack to form my title Hey Legends (I actually cut the “s” from another word to make the word Legends) and popped them up using some foam tape.

To the right of my photo I created a small cluster using the geo deer from the Die Cut Ephemera pack, with a small star on top (again using foam tape for dimension). Along the bottom edge of my photo I added the stay weird stay wonderful quote from the Epic Tales paper, with the go your own way quote from the Accessory Sticker sheet below it.

To finish off, I added some small black chevrons to the left of my photo from the Clear Sticker sheet; then a good scattering of stars from the Die Cut Ephemera pack. I am so happy with how this one came together and I absolutely love the colour combo of all those cool tones.

That’s all from me today – until next time, happy scrapping!

SUPER FUN | LEGENDARY | LAURA ALBERTS

Hi y’all! Laura Alberts back with a super fun boy layout using the stunning new Legendary collection! This week I was challenged to include some of the amazing flair in this collection, so I went for an “all around” design which gave me many clustering opportunities for adding flair! In this design, the majority of the embellishing is on the perimeter of the border and the photos are in the center. I really enjoyed creating these clusters in each corner, with a larger feature piece in two of them!

I began with the Braveheart paper for the border and then added a 2nd thinner border of the Explorer paper under my white card stock. Then, I began layering around my 2 photos and cut apart journaling spot from the Epic Tales patterned paper in the center. I tucked in the super cool “Yeah That’s My Boy!” flair in with the circular elements from the ephemera pack on a diagonal behind my photos.

The four corners then are filled with layers of embellishments to frame the layout and add some personality! I absolutely adore the bear and buck figures and really wanted to use them on this layout to represent my son’s love for camping and the outdoors. Even though these photos show him a little more dressed up than outdoorsy, I think the colors worked beautifully! The Let’s Go! flair worked well in the top right corner to finish it off!

This layout has a very special message in the journaling that I try to include on as many layouts for my kids individually as possible. I encourage them to always stay true to themselves and be authentic and honest with who they are and what’s important to them. I think it’s incredibly important for my kids to hear directly from me that they are worthy and loved!

Thank you for checking out my 12×12 scrapbook layout and I hope you find inspiration for your own creations!  If you would like to see how I created this layout, you can watch my process video on YouTube here:  https://youtu.be/INRgDTSDtfc

 

 

 

 

Super Hero | Legendary Layout | Anna Komenda

Hello CVS Friends. It’s Anna here with another project made with brand new “Legendary” collection. This line is so easy to work with and you have to believe me as I am not used to using masculine lines. I made this page in about 30 minutes which is almost a record for me. “Legendary” is a very colorful collection with almost all colors from the rainbow in it. However this time I decided to focus on yellow, orange and blue. I took those colors from the picture of my cute nephew.

I started with white background and some colorful splatters made with mists. It’s such an easy and fast way to add some unique touch to your pages. Second step was to pick three patterned papers and cut them into pieces. I also added decorative edge made with border puncher. If don’t have any, you can just tear off the edge of paper to add a little bit of mess.

Next step was to add photos over the layered papers and some title made with amazing product – Die cut titles. You have so many words to choose from and they are designed the way, you can also make longer phrases.

I love adding simple shapes to my projects and “Legendary” collection has great set of stars in various sizes and colors. I choose three bigger ones from Ephemera pack to create a visual triangle. I also added small stars from Clear stickers set and added them here and there.

I finished my page with few ephemera pieces, mostly tags and tickets, and few enamel dots. I am so happy how it all turned out. Tt will be a perfect addition to the gift for upcoming birthday of this little super hero.

I hope I inspired you to reach for this super cool collection. Zoe is a master of masculine collections! Thank you for stopping by and stay safe and healthy my Friends.

XO Anna

Thirteen | Legendary | Kylie Kingham.

Hello everyone! It’s Kylie with you again, back with another layout featuring the ‘Legendary’ collection.My son is having a birthday very, very soon and I wanted to create a page capturing him at this age.You will see I have incorporated a ‘Thirteen’ cut file into my background. This has been designed by Paige Evans.

I’ve layered papers ‘Wild One’ and ‘Total Legend’ together to create a framed background. I also drew a free hand border close to the edge with a black fine tip marker. I ended up cutting the ‘Thirteen’ cut file three times to add to my background. These were backed with some of my favourite coloured papers from the collection, before being adhered to the background with foam tape. By doing this, helped make them look like they were ‘floating’ on my background.

With so much going on in my background, I really didn’t feel I needed to add a lot of embellishments to support my photos. A few colour co-ordinated stars were tucked in behind, as well as some of the phrase quote stickers which act as a smaller sub-title, supporting my photo theme. I also couldn’t resist adding in one of the fun Flair Buttons.

To finish my layout I added in a few small clusters of the enamel dots, which just provided a nice balance to my photo cluster.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you have enjoyed seeing my layout.

Until next time,

Kylie. xx

Epic | Legendary Collection | Tarrah McLean

Hi friends,

It’s Tarrah back with you today to share a new layout using the awesome Legendary collection!

I love how versatile this collection is, it can be used for boy projects, travel projects and even girl projects! Make sure to check your local or favourite online scrapbook store and get your hands on it!

I started out by trimming some of the papers into a few different sizes and arranged them on a white cardstock background. I chose the white arrow paper to feature my photo and some of the main embellishments. My photo is one of my eldest son looking handsome and going to his Year 6 farewell night a few years back.

 

 

I love the star die-cuts in the ephemera pack, I added the grey ones in 3 places to create a visual triangle on my page. I like how this takes your eye around the page. In between 2 of the stars I added some of the clear sticker stars, I like how this adds a bit more impact to the die-cut ones.

Inside the large grey star, I added one of the large circle Authentic die-cuts, I used craft foam underneath it to raise it up, I like how it gives it shadow and dimension. I also added the ‘Epic’ die-cut title below my photo, this became my title for my page. The flairs are awesome in this collection so I added the ‘Let’s Go’ one on this page since the photo is my son getting into the car! I also added the ‘Admit One Adventure Pass’ ticket just above the flair also.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope my layout inspires you in some way! Make sure to keep an eye on the Cocoa Vanilla online store as the Legendary collection will be in the online store in the next few weeks!

Happy creating!

Tarrah x

 

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